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In collaboration with The Seattle Times, Big Local News is providing full-text nursing home deficiencies from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These files contain the full narrative details of each nursing home deficiency cited regulators. The files include deficiencies from Standard Surveys (routine inspections) and from Complaint Surveys. Complete data begins January 2011 (although some earlier inspections do show up). Individual states are provides as CSV files. A very large (4.5GB) national file is also provided as a zipped archive. New data will be updated on a monthly basis. For additional documentation, please see the README.

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rowid facility_name facility_id address city state zip inspection_date deficiency_tag scope_severity complaint standard eventid inspection_text filedate
24 BENEFIS SENIOR SERVICES 275012 2621 15TH AVE S GREAT FALLS MT 59405 2019-07-11 760 D 0 1 01HJ11 **NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY** Based on observation, interview, and record review, the facility failed to administer [MEDICATION NAME] for pain at the dose prescribed, causing unrelieved pain for 1 (#7) of 42 sampled residents. Findings include: During an observation and interview on 7/8/19 at 3:20 p.m., resident #7 was folding resident covers for meals. The resident stated her arms and hands would become sore from the folding after awhile. Review of resident #7's physician's orders [REDACTED]. The order also showed the resident was able to have 1/2 tab three times daily as needed for breakthrough pain. During an observation and interview on 7/10/19 at 1:28 p.m., staff member A stated the nurses administering, per the Controlled Substance Medication Administration Record [REDACTED]. The count sheet showed that from 6/2/19 through 7/10/19, resident #7 did not receive the correct dosage of [MEDICATION NAME] on 6/12/19 at hs, 6/19/19 at hs, 6/24/19 at hs, 7/1/19 at hs, and 7/9/19 at hs. The resident did not receive any of her [MEDICATION NAME] doses on the evenings of 6/27/19 and 7/5/19. During an interview on 7/11/19 at 8:12 a.m., resident #7 stated she only took pain pills as prescribed, but that did not mean she did not have pain. The resident stated she had learned how to control her pain by putting it in the back of my mind. During an observation and interview on 7/11/19 at 10:10 a.m., staff member B showed how the [MEDICATION NAME] was packaged. One half pill of a 5 mg pill was in each blister pack. The staff member explained resident #7 received one blister pack for mornings and two blister packs for evenings. 2020-09-01